Amber Ellen Boydstun is an American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

and

data scientist Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from potentially noisy, struct ...

. She is a professor and director of graduate studies at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

Life

Boydstun was born to Faye Ellen Ashley. Her paternal grandmother Janie Trevarton and her mother Janie Hughes helped maintain a farm and family. Boydstun's maternal grandmother, Marion Ashley (née DeWolf) was a military wife and homemaker. She completed a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics from St. John's College in 1999. Following graduation, she tutored mathematics at the

Native American Preparatory School The Native American Preparatory School Inc. (NAPS) was a residential university preparatory school located in unincorporated San Miguel County, New Mexico, in proximity to South San Ysidro. The school had a Rowe PO Box. The school's website als ...

for a semester. She earned a M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) in political science from the Penn State Graduate School. Her dissertation was titled, ''How Policy Issues Become Front-Page News''.

Frank Baumgartner Frank Baumgartner is an American political scientist, currently the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and formerly the Distinguished Professor and Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne ...

was Boydstun's doctoral advisor. Boydstun researches the interaction between media and politics. She joined

in 2008 as an assistant professor. She codeveloped a smartphone app for students to react to the

2012 United States presidential debates The 2012 United States presidential debates were a series of debates held during the 2012 presidential election. The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a bipartisan organization formed in 1987, organized four debates among the major ...

in real time. Boydstun was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and professor of political science in 2020. She is the director of

graduate studies Postgraduate education, graduate education, or graduate school consists of academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications usually pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachel ...

. She is the chief data scientist of the diversity lab.

Selected works

* * Reviews of ''Making the News'': * *

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boydstun, Amber E Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American women political scientists Women data scientists American data scientists 21st-century American women scientists St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni Pennsylvania State University alumni University of California, Davis faculty 21st-century American political scientists